The Foundations Of Decay chords by My Chemical Romance

• Capo on 4th
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: C#m

🎸 Verse 1:
Am      F
See the man
    G               Em
Who stands upon the hill
F            Dm                   Esus4  E
He dreams of all the battles won
    Am       F        G              Em
But fate had left its scars upon his face



F             Dm               Esus4  E
With all the damage they had done
       F          G
And so time, with age
    E        Am
He turns the page
G         F
Let the flesh
                 E
Submit itself to gravity

🎸 Chorus:
        F
Let our bodies lay
          G
While our hearts we'll save
        E
Let our blood invade
     Am          G
If I die in vain
    F                           G
Now, if your convictions were a passing faith
         E                           Am           G
May your ashes feed the river in the morning rays
F
And as the vermin crawls
   Dm             E*               Am
We lay in the foundations of decay


🎸 Verse 2:
Am           F    G              Em
He was there, the day the towers fell
F         Dm                Esus4  E
And so he wandered down the road
    Am       F         G             Em
And we would all build towers of our own
F       Dm                 Esus4  E
Only to watch the rooms corrode
         F         G
But it's much too late
       E      Am
You're in the race
G        F
So we'll press
                         E
And press 'til you can't take it anymore


🎸 Chorus:
        F
Let our bodies lay
          G
While our hearts we'll save
        E
Let our blood invade
     Am          G
If I die in vain
F                            G
And if, by his own hand, his spirit flies
         E
Take his body as a relic
      Am        G
To be canonized, now
F                       E
And so he gets to die a saint
                           Am
But she will always be the whore


🎸 Bridge:  (2 strums on each chord)
Am  Am  Am
(Let's flip out!)
Am  Am   Am  C
Am  Am   Am  C

Am  Am     Am     Em
A---gainst faith (Antihero)
Am  Am     Am        Em
A---gainst all life (As if it must be pure)
Am  Am     Am      Em
A---gainst change (Wander through the ruins)
Am Am  Am        Am            F      G
We are free (The guiltiness is yours)

🎸 Verse 3:
         Em         Am    G
You must   fix your heart
F         G             Em             Am      G
  And you must build an altar where it rests
         F                    G
When the storm decays and the sky it rains
       Em
Let it flood

Let it flood
       Am        G
Let it wash away
F                              G
And as we stumble through your last crusade
         Em                             Am      G
When you welcome your extinction in the morning rays
F                            E
And as the swarming calls we lay in the foundations


🎸 Outro:
        Am               Dm   Am
Yes, it comforts me much more
E         Am               Dm
  Yes, it comforts me much more
   Am             E
To lay in the foundations of decay
Bb A     Bb A      Bb A
     Get     up
coward!